New wedding liturgy just dropped

"Joy in Resistance" | Resistance Revival Chorus | March 10 YouTube video by Middle Church

If my faith had a theme song, it would be this.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF6Q...

Picture of the toy “magic 8 ball” with the text “How some folks are reading the Bible”

You’ve seen people doing it — heck, maybe you’ve done it! Treating the Bible like it’s a fortune cookie.

Stop it.

Male and Female should be pronounced like Tamale.

I won’t be taking any questions.

If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?

Disarmed - Disarming Peter YouTube video by Spirit of Joy! Lutheran Church

This weekends events drew me back to a sermon from earlier this year. On the Pax Americana, Biblical Peace, and our infatuation with violence.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7pf...

Talking about social justice on Sunday morning

See more in the full sermon:

youtu.be/9vlHa8LhpRQ?...

#elca #lutheran

You know what’s awesome?
The hotel’s fire alarm going off at 4:00am. Awesome.

#foh2025, If you see me nodding off today, no you didn’t.

Pope Leo XIV urges release of imprisoned journalists, affirms gift of free speech and press VATICAN CITY (AP) — The 69-year-old Augustinian missionary, elected in a 24-hour conclave last week, called for journalists to use words for peace, to reject war and to give voice to the voiceless.

In his first meeting with representatives of the general public, Pope Leo XIV called for journalists to use words for peace, to reject war and to give voice to the voiceless.

“Why do Christians confuse faith with what we believe?”

The Rev Dr Brian Blount @ #foh2025

"Isolation feeds despair, but solidarity breaks it."- Rev. Dr. Melva Sampson #FOH2025

#foh2025

Prophetic witness is not a spiritual elective, it is the church’s birthright

- Rev Dr Melva Sampson at #foh2025
@pinkrobedpastor.bsky.social

God doesn’t give you a right to remain silent, you are called to speak up!

- Rev Dr Melva Sampson at #foh2025
@pinkrobedpastor.bsky.social

Me, squinting in front of the sign for Peachtree Rd UMC

The last stop on my mini-sabbatical: The Festival of Homiletics in Atlanta.

A great chance to be renewed and learn from others preachers from a wide variety of backgrounds.

If you happen to be here, make sure to say hi!

#foh2025

Yesterday, everyone called him Robert.
Today, everyone calls him Leo.

One day they called him Abram, the next Abraham. One day Simon, the next Peter. One day Jacob, the next Israel.

CHOSEN NAMES ARE THAT EASY.

Forgiveness of sins

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV granted an indulgence to everyone listening to his speech after the election.

The important question is, what sin are you going to use your indulgence for?

Radical - Easter 2025 - 1 YouTube video by Spirit of Joy! Lutheran Church

Preaching MLK’s Letter from Birmingham Jail this season.

Sundays sermon could be subtitled “in praise of extremism”

youtu.be/RMNdEBOc-JI?...

Oh. Definitely got a hat. Couldn’t pass it up.

I’m in Montgomery Alabama. Currently watching the minor league team - called the Biscuits - while eating boiled peanuts.

When I say Texas is SOUTHERN but not the SOUTH, this is what I mean.

If you aren’t familiar with the Whitney.

Most plantations center the experience and lives of the enslavers. The art, architecture, and lives of the wealthy white folks.

The Whitney centers the lives and experience of the enslaved laborers.

And. Wow. It’s powerful.

Me, bald with sunglasses, in a green shirt standing next to a sign that reads “Whitney Plantation”

Started my sabbatical today on the West Bank of the Mississippi in South Louisiana; with a sobering visit to the Whitney Plantation.

Learning about race, history, and faith over the next few weeks.

👇🏻👇🏿👇🏼👇🏾👇🏽

Good Friday 2025 YouTube video by Spirit of Joy! Lutheran Church

People either loved this Good Friday sermon or hated it.

Little bit of James Cone, little bit of local history, whole lot of challenge of the ways we conspire with empire

(CW descriptions of racial violence)

youtu.be/B_Ju4x6lvOI?...

Until we can see the cross & the lynching tree together, until we can identify Christ with a 'recrucified' black body hanging from a lynching tree, there can be no genuine understanding of Christian identity in US, & no
deliverance from the brutal legacy of slavery & white supremacy

James Cone

Key Findings | Death Penalty Information Center The Death Penalty Information Center (DPI) is a national non-profit organization whose mission is to serve the media, policymakers, and the general public…

In the last 50 years, 5.5% of all death sentences have been overturned because of prosecutorial misconduct.

(deathpenaltyinfo.org/facts-and-re...)

According to the Innocence Project, since 1989 there have been 375 DNA exonerations.

Cases where later DNA testing has proven that it was not possible for the convicted person to have committed the crime.

Those innocent individuals spent an average of 14 years in prison.

On Good Friday

Every innocent person convicted and incarcerated stands as an accusation.

Every innocent person executed stands as a condemnation.

We have crucified our Lord.

U2 - When Love Comes To Town (Official Music Video) YouTube video by U2VEVO

And the soundtrack --

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TGU...